Written by Clem on
Tuesday, November 20th, 2012 @ 10:27 am | Main Topics

The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 14 “Nadia”.

Linux Mint 14 Nadia

For the first time since Linux Mint 11, the development team was able to capitalize on upstream technology which works and fits its goals. After 6 months of incremental development, Linux Mint 14 features an impressive list of improvements, increased stability and a refined desktop experience. We’re very proud of MATE, Cinnamon, MDM and all the components used in this release, and we’re very excited to show you how they all fit together in Linux Mint 14.

Distributors and magazines in Japan, USA and countries where distributing media codecs is problematic can use the “No Codecs” ISO images. These images are available for both the MATE and Cinnamon editions, in 32-bit and 64-bit at the following address:

Manufacturers can pre-install Linux Mint on their computers using the OEM installation images. These images will be made available next week, for both the MATE and Cinnamon edition in 64-bit at the following address:

Because of the size of the content, and the fact that a vast majority of systems nowadays can either boot from DVDs or from USB, Linux Mint no longer provides images which fit in 700MB CDs. It is however possible and easy to to modify ISO images. By removing packages such as Java, Mono, LibreOffice, Gimp..etc.. Linux Mint ISOs can be made to fit within 700MB. For instructions on how to remaster the Linux Mint ISOs, please read the following tutorial:

W00t!! Perfect timing for those of us in the States! Now I have something to look forward to while digesting my Thanksgiving turkey! I am certainly thankful for Clem and everybody who makes Linux Mint and every GNU/Linux project associated with it possible!

Nice Job! I downloaded the cinnamon version, and installed it atm in a vm, later this week I will install it on my laptop :). For now, I am really pleased with cinnamon. Let’s hope it will be fast then also

Big question now: Shall I wait for the improvements to eventually leak to the Maya install I currently use or shall I upgrade to Nadia? I don’t care much for the LTS: I don’t think this old netbook will live to see the end of support for Maya. Also, my distro hopping stopped when I realised I didn’t get as excited with most other distros as I do with anything Mint. So, this is one of the two times a year when I get that excitement back. Thoughts anyone?

Also, I like both desktops but I want all the Cinnamon themes and when you install the DE on top of the MATE or the Xfce install, you get just the one. If I install using the Cinnamon iso and then I install MATE on top, am I missing something compared to the MATE iso?

Thank you, Mint Team, for a distro that rivals any of the commercial ones (at least for the use I give it)!!

Woohoo!! Downloading all four incarnations right now. Been using the release candidate, and it’s fabulous. Congrats to all the dev team on what’s still by far, my favourite distro. Well done everyone concerned.

@ Clem:

Someone asked this the other day, but I didn’t see anyone reply. Is my fully updated release candidate version (I use Cinnamon, but I’m also enquiring about Mate as well), the same as the final released version, or do I need to reinstall? I would appreciate clarification about that from anyone who knows, and is 100% certain.

Mint 14 is working very well for me. When will UP 6 enter incoming? Looking forward to the Xfce release of Mint 14 and the separation of MATE and Cinnamon in LMDE (with the new ISOs), as well as LMDE Xfce.

A LinuxMint fan ever since version 4 (Daryna) this sadly looks like a parting of the ways for me because it’s all got too complex and seems to be getting out of control despite a magnificent job by the team so far.
All these declared limitations for different platforms, whilst the 32bit MATE DVD won’t even load on my E5400 desktop rig, simply shutting down whilst the 64bit version will inexplicably load.
From ‘the words’ I guess that matters could be more dire for older rigs, so I probably won’t expend too much effort investigating further, especially as the latest free 32bit ZorinOS 6.1 is simply working on every rig that I try it on and is to remain a mainstream LTS.
I am just hoping that Zorin6 retains the NVIDIA295 driver with its very useful OverScan Correction that enables a large screen Samsung SmartTV to be used for demonstrations or by visually-impaired folk.
I see that LinuxMint-14 is dabbling with a whole series of later, experimental drivers so I hope that won’t ‘be catching’ for Zorin.
However the very best of luck to the LinuxMint team and perhaps I’ll rejoin the happy throng for LinuxMint-15 ?

How long does the xfce version generally take as I could easily wait for a week or two but if it really takes much longer I’d rather just manually install xfce over the newer version which still works fine but tends to creat confusing duplicate config programs and such.

it seems linux mint will force pae on users too, how sad. please linux mint let the user able pae don’t force it on us not everyone has a pae compatible pc. ubuntu has aready done this if all ubuntu based distro go pae only then i guess i will have to go back to windows.

@david considering how long pae has been the standard and how rare cpu’s without it are becoming I don’t think it is strange to have it a requirment, at some point you just need too replace a pc, you could always stay on the older version, update your software and just keep the core older, you can still run exactly the same programs you could before so on that front not much has changed. Even if you compare it to windows you can also not be on the latest windows version as windows 8 also requires it so there is no real motivation there, you will be on a outdated version either way. You could even just hop distro’s to another distro that does support it.

In addition to that some support breaks a lot faster, for example the 4xxx and below series of amd gpu’s don’t work with the closes source actually performing drivers on new distro’s because amd stopped making drivers for them and new drivers are needed for the latest linux kernels.

I have an AMD/ATI radeon HD 4350 videocard. Is there any plans to release an Linux Mint edition with legacy support? Something like Linux Mint 14 with kernel and xorg from ubuntu 12.04 lts? otherwise ill have to leave Linux for good..

Looks like people are still reporting the flashing cursor bug I filed during the RC on launchpad. Why even bother with the RC? LOL. I think I’m officially moving on from Mint now. Too bad, because Mint 10 was almost perfect. It’s really strange that every version since that one has not been as good. I wonder how much Microsoft has paid the Canonical to screw up the whole Linux ecosystem.

most distros that ubuntu based force pae, but don’t consider older hardware and why should upgrade my hardware if it gets the job done. windows 2000 doesn’t require pae. the only distro that doesn’t force pae is wattos along with arch based distros. but my point is pretty soon linux mint/ ubuntu will be do slow to run even with hardware that’s more up to spec i don’t understand why linux can’t be more like windows in a way instead of releasing a new version of ubuntu every 6 months why not a year or every 5 years and worry more about stability
and performance so far with every new very of mint or ubuntu the os gets slower and slower more programs added and the kerel even more buddy then the last. i been using ubuntu since 2008 a.k.a 8.04 and that was alot faster then 12.04 of course ubuntu didn’t have unity by defualt.

Those who complain about PAE apparently mistaken that requirement with NX requirement for Windows 8, which slashed operating system support for many CPUs which supported Windows 7 and would have enough computational power to support Windows 8. PAE feature was introduced in Pentium Pro back in 1995.

I always suggest Linux Mint to newcomers (to Linux) and those users who are fed up with various issues (mostly security related) in Winblow. Personally, I have been using Mint more and more starting with 13-Maya, MATE. Although, I primarily live, work and play in Fedora/RedHat land… I find that Mint, although binary compatible and derived from Ubuntu seems to be MUCH more stable…or at least it has been on my hardware and in my experiences. Aside from that, I truly believe you all have taken the rights steps to make the experience as, not only pain free, but completely enjoyable for the newcomer. I have installed Mint on 2 machines that were not my own as favors for a coupe of computer-illiterate folks who just couldn’t avoid malware, some of the most vicious and abundant I had ever seen. It completely destroyed their OS’s, recovery partitions, MBR, the whole lot beyond the point of any recovery short of a full re-install. I configured their systems to automate as much of the admin as possible and even months down the line they are running without a hitch (or so they say)! I can’t wait to try out 14. You guys are awesome and this is a distro you deserve to be proud of. Mint = the real/best Ubuntu.

Congratulations on another stellar release! Like Osman above says, the big, big difference between Mint and *all the others* is the close attention they pay to their userbase. No-one else does this to the same degree. It’s no doubt difficult to manage, and can be treacherous for the devs, but the net result is that Linux mint is the best Linux distribution out there right now, and feels like we all have something to do with it on some level.

I was sad to see the LXDE version go, but likely a friend got a small old but very capable computer and as he was a Xubuntu 8.04 user we installer mint 13 xfce 64bit.. It is brilliant!

I always found xfce a bit ugly but with the Mint gtk theme, color scheme and maybe little Xfce 4.10 refinements I can’t pinpoint it’s well better than I thought (it gives it more justice than trying it for 30 seconds in a VM too)

But LXDE, maybe it can come back later when it has changed for the better. I have to try Lubuntu 12.10, which uses pcmanfm 1.0.1 and has an improved theme (the two previous versions were ugly IMO), it would be a similar experience to Mint LXDE after replacing Chrome with Firefox.

pcmanfm 1.1.0 was released recently, now lxpanel, the other LXDE component, if this one reaches 1.0 then I’m sure a LXDE edition could be at least considered 😛

Once again, the RC is much better then the actual release. I decided to install Mint after all this time and all the installer did is wipe out my Windows 8 install and then crash. Leaving me with no OS.

I guess I could try installing the RC and see where that gets me. I just want to come back home to Mint and I can’t even do that.

My point to david about windows 8 was merely pointing out you don’t have to be on the newest version all time time just like you don’t have to on windows as in both cases you couldn’t. There is really nothing that says I need to go to windows because my linux version doesn’t update, you can still update software you can still run everything you could before, you just can’t upgrade just like with windows.

Thanks a lot to all of you that contributed to the development of Mint 14.

I only recently started using Linux Mint 13 after coming from Windows. I am happy to be ‘part of something big’ and very glad I am no longer supporting Microsoft’s monopoly. Linux has made my HTPC more fun and some sort of a project that I can tweak and from which I can learn. Linux Mint gives way more satisfaction than Windows ever gave me!

Greetings LXDE fans. I too like LXDE, perhaps enough other fans will come together as a community (try organizing on the forums) and create a version with LXDE. An LXDE version seems to come up each and every release of Mint.

Barring an ‘official’ effort, you can always install LXDE on your Mint machine.
Good Luck

What’s so different in Nadia from Maya?
Reading the release notes, the differences are minor (slightly improved software manager, gedit 2.3 instead of 3…), and most of the new features in cinnamon are already available in Maya if you upgraded to the latest cinnamon available in Romeo. I guess I’ll stick to Maya for now and wait for cinnamon 1.6 to be “backported”. Especially since I have an Intel graphic card, like most people

Just wanted to drop in – I tested this and what a treat. Clem and Team – Thank you so very much for your efforts. Time and time again you show the linux world how to make and ship a really good Linux version that can fit the laptop/desktop world. I’m running the cinnamon variant and its simply very nice to see people ‘get’ what a nice desktop should be like. I accept its still perhaps early days and you probably have much to do yet – but its clear you really do get it.

If your work continues as it has – I can see that you may well in fact end up being default desktop in Linux far and wide.

Congrats on another very nice Mint (and kudos to related projects in that as well) release.

Impossible to start the live from USB, a black screen is all I get.
It happens with all the versions (Mate 32bit and 64bit, Cinnamon 32bit and 64bit).
If I connect an external monitor I can read this error message:
[drm:intel_dp_complete_link_train] failed to train DP, aborting

Installed and running, no problems so far… and now I understand the excitement on the release announcement: little but meaningful details such as the splash screen animation (after all these editions), the Firefox icon (bye bye big eye), and many, many others… Thank you, Clem and all the dev team!

What else besides Cinnamon 1.6 can Maya/LTS users expect to be back ported? See, I’m in no hurry to upgrade. At least, that’s what I’m gonna keep telling myself. But that excuse had NEVER gotten me through the first weekend after a Mint release. The first lull or dull moment, I fold like lawn furniture, and I’d like to put up a some semblance of a fight this time!

The fastest way to open the most used programs is just a single click on icon from Docky.

Docky requires compositing in Mate and it doesn’t work (the same like in the Mint 13).
How to add the program icons to Docky in Cinnamon? Drag and drop from menu does not work like it used to work. Is it incompatible with Cinnamon? Do you have any solution?

What about proprietary graphic drivers?
Is the development just going all around the changing windows environment. I’ve been using the Mint for about 7 years. Do we need to go backwards?

A 32bit system will not address more than 4GB of system ram. If you have 4GB of ram, a 32bit OS will address about 3.8GB of ram give or take. You need a 64bit OS to address anything more. BUT, you will of course be presented with the typical drawbacks of the 64bit OS. Simply put, not ALL software that you might want to use is well supported on a 64bit OS. So depending on what your needs are, you may run into problems in that regard. It is very user specific.

The beauty of a 32bit OS is that it will run flawlessly on 64bit hardware, other than the above stated limitations of system resources, and there is still WAY more software out that that is fully supported on the 32bit architecture, believe it or not. This is painted as a controversial subject. But there really is no controversy–it is mere fact. As time moves on, there are still more and more software projects that are conforming to the 64bit architecture, but again, that is still quite a long road. After all, there is a pretty good reason why Ubuntu and other distros still recommend the 32bit OS. Just a thought.

That being said, simply pick what’s best for you, all things considered.

@PB — I’ve been using a 64bit linux system for years (perhaps 4 or 5), and have never once encountered any software that is not “well supported”, even at the beginning of that period. Could you give an example of what you’re talking about? I’m a bit concerned now! cheers!

(nb. the only drawback of 64 bit systems that I’m aware of is that more memory is consumed due to the way that memory is addresses. hence my VPSs run 32bit systems, since they have very limited system memory, but my desktop and laptop are, and have been, 64 bit all the way)

@PB – In the case of Linux Mint 14(and Ubuntu 12.10) the 32-bit version is PAE enabled which means the 32-bit version of Linux Mint should see 8 GB of memory if it’s installed on a 64-bit system. However, if someone plans any serious, high end graphics, video or number crunching then the 64-bit versions of these types of applications on a true 64-bit GNU/Linux distro is recommended.

Please don’t draw an improper conclusion from what I said. What I said was not ALL software is supported on a 64bit Operating System. If your system is working fine for you, then you have nothing to worry about.

I personally ran into Lexmark driver software that did not run on 64bit Linux operating systems. There are other things also. For example, if you manually install Libreoffice, you have two packages to choose from–one is for 32bit platforms and the other for 64bit. There is a reason for that. Some software developers provide one version that may work on both platforms, others have one version that only works on 32bit, others are like Libreoffice that offer both platforms. Point being, there is still more software supported on a 32bit platform than on 64bit.

How long has HDTV been around? Are there still channels that don’t broadcast in HD? You bet there is.

If you’re not running into a problem with the software that you need to use, then my comment doesn’t apply to you. As I mentioned, it is very user specific. But to be perfectly clear, the 32bit platform will be around for a long time, you can count on it. For now, there really is no reason to completely abandon 32bit despite what many bleeding edge techies would have us believe.

Just to add, what we’re talking about is operating system platforms, not hardware platforms. As you probably know, a 32bit OS and application software will run just fine on a 64bit hardware base, but not the other way around.

just one word… PERFECT! if someday I stop playing games (just playing guild wars 2 and not a lot atm..) I will stay with linux mint (I know you can run guild wars 2 from wine and it goes ok but it still closes quite often without any reason :p

I had to go back to Mint 13 because of a weird bug that keeps me from playing DotA2.
I use the same drivers (NVIDIA 310.14), the same .wine folder, the same wine version and the same Steam folder.
In Mint 14 it runs fine for about 10 minutes then the performance gets very bad for 1-2 minutes. Then it runs fine again for another 10 minutes and so on…
No problems in Mint 13.

While I can’t disagree with your comment, I will say again that that is a pretty specific configuration, and somewhat of a departure from the normal 32bit architecture. I knew the PAE Kernel unlocked better multi-core performance but I did not know it also impacted memory addressing. I have no way of testing as I only have 4GB of memory which is way overkill for what I do.

On another note, annoying tiny red rectangular blinking pixel grouping toward the bottom right section of my screen has stopped since I installed Nvidia driver. Was hoping to get away from having to do that, as the nouveau driver seems to work pretty well for my system–aside from that annoyance anyway. Annoying red blinking pixels are not a factor in LM13-Cinnamon, even without Nvidia installed. Go figure.

Excellent !!!! Congratulations to the Linux Mint team have done a great job again, as in the previous version. Linux Mint 14 Mate has an amazing stability, and Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon increasingly visually getting better and better functioning well. I look craving many versions of KDE and XFCE. Congratulations and Greetings.-

I had to go back to Mint 13 because of a weird bug that keeps me from
playing DotA2.
I use the same drivers (NVIDIA 310.14), the same .wine folder, the
same wine version and the same Steam folder.
In Mint 14 it runs fine for about 10 minutes then the performance gets
very bad for 1-2 minutes. Then it runs fine again for another 10
minutes and so on…
No problems in Mint 13.

If you want LXDE and Cinnamon, you have two methods;
1) Install Ubuntu mini.iso and install LXDE and add the Nadia repos to /etc/apt/sources.list and sudo apt-get update, and sudo apt-get install cinnamon,

In both ways, you get Cinnamon-1.6.7 and you have your Mint 14 LXDE (or Lubuntu).

You can do the same with Mate.
If you want XFCE or KDE, install KDE and/or XFCE to your ubuntu based installation, and just add the Nadia repos to sources.list and install whatever there are in the Nadia Repos.

So far really good release. I’ve experienced one strange behavior: I’ve added czech keyboard layout to default english layout a set Alt+Shift to toggle between these layouts, first shortcut didn’t seem to work, but after minute or 2 it got fixed somehow. Since then it works fine. All in all Thanks for Your hard work Clem and team!

I had to go back to Mint 13 because of a weird bug that keeps me from
playing DotA2.
I use the same drivers (NVIDIA 310.14), the same .wine folder, the
same wine version and the same Steam folder.
In Mint 14 it runs fine for about 10 minutes then the performance gets
very bad for 1-2 minutes. Then it runs fine again for another 10
minutes and so on…
No problems in Mint 13.”

In Mint 13, you had Cinnamon 1.4-UP3, which was working very well all the time, but in Mint 14, you have Cinnamon 1.6.7+nadia, which is buggy.

If you want your apps to work well again, change Mint Nadia repo to Maya repo, uninstall Cinnamon and reinstall, so you get 1.4 and all your problems would go away. Its said, if it doesn’t break, don’t change it. Mint 14 was just an unnecessary step, made just because Quantal came out. And, Quantal is in transit, until the next LTS release. So, you have bugs!

“In Mint 13, you had Cinnamon 1.4-UP3, which was working very well all the time, but in Mint 14, you have Cinnamon 1.6.7+nadia, which is buggy.”
I have Cinnamon 1.6.4 in Mint 13.
But I don’t think this is Cinnamon related as it also happens in XFCE with Mint 14.

I am sad to say but I will have to downgrade back from Mate 14 64b. Just too many issues (usb_modeswitch segfault, …). These are not some small things that may or may not be somewhat buggy.
Also tried Cinnamon 14 and it was very fine but just the small detail that the cinnamon menu doesnt funcion the way it should (filter apps by category, etc).
The developement and freshness is all cool but the key to usable OS is the stability and quality assurance.

Mate team, good luck and thanks for giving the community your service!

So first off let me say Cinnamon looks very nice. I’ve been a fan of Linux Mint for 5 years now ever since I started using Linux.

However, what NIC’s are supported now? I have tried using this and past few releases on multiple PC’s (five different NICs) and none of them work right. I’d really hate to stop using Linux Mint but I am stuck on Katya which is no longer supported. (Tried the forums and bug report with no answer)
Hope this can get fixed.

What has been the nature of your problems with NICs? Are they partially working, or not working at all? Can you be a little more specific? I ask this because the network manager has had some real ups and downs over the past few releases. I’ve run into a couple myself, but there are some easy work-arounds, depending on what your problem is.

It seems really strange that you’ve tried so many different ones, and none of them work acceptably. There may be something else in common with all of your attempts that you don’t realize–something like a bad LAN cable, which is not all that uncommon, can make you pull your hair out for no good reason. Just something to think about.

Hi all, great work. I have recently come to linux and then Mint (via ubuntu, Peppermint OS3 and some false starts) and am enjoying it.

I did install mint 14 Cinnamon on a laptop that I use as a network resource on my small business network. I had problems configuring samba to allow access to USB drive shares (connected directly to the “serve”)from Windows 7 and XP pcs. After creating users, configuring shares and users and so forth, I was able to see the shares from windows, but encountered a permissions error whereby after supplying the correct credentials for the share, I was asked for the server credentials which were rejected. I beleive my installation and configuration was correct (after several hours I rolled back to Mint 13 and had no problems setting up the network).

Not sure if anyone else has encountered such difficulties with Samba under 14, but thought it is worth mentioning. Happy to provide further info if needed.

This is all done in Virtualbox, so I don’t know about an actual install. With vanilla Mint 14 Mate 32-bit, after applying ‘apt-get update’ and ‘apt-get dist-upgrade’. Internet did not work (in Virtualbox). (I don’t see any other posts about it, so maybe it was a fluke.)

Running “sudo dhclient eth0″ did work to get internet back, but it gave a warning that there’s a better way. It suggested using “service smbd reload” or “reload smbd”.

So maybe something happened to samba(?) after upgrading. That’s why the Mint Team does not recommend blindly doing updates/upgrades.

But the flashplugin-installer in Synaptics is already version 11.2.202.251ubuntu0.12.10.1

But: I did not install this, because mint-flash is OK for me and works fine.

What I want to do is: to install google-earth again and this thing needs ia32-libs as dependency. So this needs to be fixed up.

Then as next, I would like to install the game vertris again as replacment for quadrapassel.
But: vertris is not installable (defective; dependency-problem:
the following dependencies are not satisfying:
needs: neliballegro4.2
needs: libc6 (>=2.7)
The versions available are:
liballegro4.4
libc6 2.15-0ubuntu20
So these dependencies also need to be fixed up.

Please guys: get this fixed because I would like to use these both things again.

For everyone with Nvidia-graphics here in the forum, who does not know where the installing for restricted graphics-drivers is:

jockey-gtk is not installed by default. You need to install this first. Just open your Terminal and type in this:

sudo apt-get install jockey-gtk

let it run through and then you can install your graphics-drivers.

Or the other chance is:
open your Synaptics and look for these packages:

nvidia-current-updates
nvidia-current-settings-updates

Install these packages and close Synaptic and reboot your machines.

Then after reboot, for a second, the nvidia-logo should flash up on your screen and flashes out again to boot into mintdm.

Then I can confirm, that there is a bug in network-manager (for Users with an rt3090-WLAN-chip or also rt2860 WLAN-chip), so the WLAN might not work at first. But: there is an easy help:

Open your Terminal and type in this:

gksu gedit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

In this text-document, there is an error. Look at this line:

[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
dns=dnsmasq

[ifupdown]
[b]managed=false[/b]

This line is wrong!! This line needs to be fixed so that it will look like this:

[b]managed=true[/b]

Then save these changes and go back to the panel and retry to connect.

If this fails, there is another trick, that might help.

Again open your Terminal and type in this:

gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Then this document will open. There take a look, if this document contains the following line:

blacklist rt2800pci

This line should not be in there!! So if this line is in there, delete this line and save these changes! This line can also be the reason, why WLAN could not work. For me, these both tricks did it. Close these document and the containing folder and go back to the panel and retry to connect.

Then after this, you need to do a complete first system-update and system-upgrade. So open your Terminal and type in this:

sudo apt-get update (let it run through completely)

then follows this command:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (also let it run through completely)

What should be installed after that:
all OpenJDK-7 packages
muffin
alacarte (which is also not installe by default)

As next, you might want to upgrade your Firefox and Thunderbird. Therfore you need to activate the ppa-repository of the mozilla-team. You will find it on launchpad through useing the search-function. There enter: firefox-next and sear for this repository
Then afterwards search for Thunderbird-next and also activate this ppa-repository.

Then du a further complete system-update and system-upgrade.

Then you are so far done.

Then you might want to add several mini-apps to your panel. Therefore go here:

@Mintkatze – On restricted drivers, you’re giving the wrong advice. Jockey does not need to be installed as it was removed for a reason. Installing these drivers is now in the Software Sources app under the new “Additional Drivers” tab. One thing though. if you recall how Jockey had to scan for drivers before opening the app, Software Sources now has to do the same thing but it has no “Scanning hardware” (whatever it was called) box that pops up beforehand. This makes it look like clicking on “Software Sources” does nothing for several seconds when it’s actually scanning your hardware. Be patient and the app will open after scanning. Again, Jockey does not need to be installed.

I had to go back to Mint 13 because of a weird bug that keeps me from
playing DotA2.
I use the same drivers (NVIDIA 310.14), the same .wine folder, the
same wine version and the same Steam folder.
In Mint 14 it runs fine for about 10 minutes then the performance gets
very bad for 1-2 minutes. Then it runs fine again for another 10
minutes and so on…
No problems in Mint 13.”

There is no task consuming all resources, the graphics card isn’t too hot, nothing unusual in iotops…
Happens in Cinnamon and XFCE. What could this be?

I agree with you, and I will add that the very FIRST thing everybody should do is update there system completely. It will fix a lot of problems. You can use the terminal if you want and run “apt-get dist-upgrade” but clicking on the MintUpdate shield will launch the same process. This may eliminate many if not all other steps that Mintkatze posted first in comment 183. While those suggestions might still be in order, it’s best to let the distro fix itself by running the proper updates. Then you can see what shakes out and what still needs fixing.

To emphasize what Kirk M is saying, and it’s been stated by other users, including myself–forget Jockey for graphics drivers installation. It’s toast. I believe Ubuntu scuttled the project, or is going to, or something like that. Instead, perform the much simpler process below:

Go to “Software Sources” and select the “Additional Drivers” tab. You can find what you need right there.

Great piece of art.
Fully functional.
No faulty edges.
I completely removed win8 pro for Linux Mint 14 cinnamon 64bit and happy as a child after 2 days. Everyth,ng works as supposed to with very nice additional feature surprizes.
(Sony Vaio VPCF1 Notebook, 8 RAM, 512 SSD, 1920×1080 Display, i7)
Thanks to the team and Clem for this happiness.

PB
Here is my post on the forums.http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=150&t=111717
My PC is plugged directly into the modem (modem has a switch). I am using the same PC and cable right now with Windows 7 and no problems. Used it on HP PC and an HP laptop (wireless on this one). It only randomly works. It will connect and then stop working. If I disable and re-enable the NIC (through Linux) then it works a few minutes then stops. I would absolutely and greatly appreciate any help getting this fixed. I love Linux Mint but it’s just not usable right not.
Thanks (to anyone that can help)

I think that there is a bug with the latest cinnamon (Mint 14 – Nadia):
I’ve created several new “custom keyboard shortcut” but non of them is working.
It seems that there is a problem with creating new custom keyboard shortcut (The pre-defined shortcut works very well)
It’s a bug or it’s happened only on my machine?

That is puzzling. One of the other posters on that forum said something about no Realtek cards working at all, but that’s hogwash, because I have a Realtek card and it’s running fine, in fact don’t know that I’ve ever had a problem with a Realtek card myself.

You don’t by chance have two cards installed do you? Is it just the onboard card, or do you have that one and a PCI card by chance? If you have two you could be having some conflicts. What does your network manager show as your configuration?

I cant get my laptop to detect the CD in UEFI mode on my laptop
secure boot is disabled and the cd is properly burned but it will not detect it. It detectis in Bios mode but not UEFI and I cannot install I really need help.

If you have a working Mint 13, there is no need to worry about not being able to install Mint 14 or get it working. All you have to do is change the maya repo to nadia repo in your Mint 13 – sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Then,

sudo apt-get update

then open Synaptic and upgrade your Cinnamon.

And, you’d have your new Cinnamon (1.6.7+nadia) with your 5 year LTS Mint 13 from Precise.

Edit by Clem: UPDATE, we found the issue, it’s specific to Ubiquity in Mint 14 (i.e. it doesn’t affect Ubuntu). We’ll respin the 64-ISOs and make an announcement. For a rough ETA, this should take approximately a week.

I have Radeon 3450 and after installing Mint 14 inxi -G shows
“GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe”. After using this tutorial
(i used 3rd-party repository created by Tomasz Makarewicz wich is tutorial above) and runing apt-get update && upgrade inxi -G shows
“GLX Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 3450″ and i have installed Catalyst Center.
Also in Catalyst is working Tear Free mode with this drives.

for us not but we represent not all the people.it was always installed so what’s the point now?! a lot of people don’t know what to do when something is not in the place they know. was changed? then say this and what to do. otherwise they are lost for linux in fact for no reason.
i saw now what kirk wrote. why not in the release notes? is this complicated?! no!
mintkatze didn’t know either. do you think that a beginner will know this thing?! no!
so to do this thing wright it takes 5 min. why not?!

Hi, i recently installed LM14 64 bit on my Dell vostro 1400. Everything is fine except i have to install my broadcom wireless driver after each reboot, because it doesn’t work otherwise. After reinstalling the driver, my wifi starts working again. Anybody having similar problem with their broadcom card???

Ahmad @ 221: Type inxi -Gx in Terminal. If it says “GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe,” close everything and log out of Cinnamon. Log back in. Check inxi -Gx to see if your regular graphics setup has replaced what was first listed. Don’t ask me how or why it works. I don’t know. It was a suggestion in the forum. I tried it and the same problem you describe was resolved for me. Good luck.

@dd – I agree it should have been made more obvious but you’re taking your complaint to the wrong people. The removal of jockey in favor of the new “Additional drivers” tab and it’s underlying technology (“ubuntu-drivers-common” is one of the new packages) was developed by Ubuntu for 12.10, not Mint for Nadia. However, Ubuntu never mentioned this change in their “What’s new/Release notes” either from what I can tell. You’re complaint is quite valid but I’d direct the complaint to Ubuntu, not Mint.

I tried Mint 14 on my Dell E6400 laptop, but rolled back due to constant issues with my Broadcom 4322 wireless card. I also noticed that some of my custom shortcuts no longer work, and no matter how I tweaked them I couldn’t get them working. Otherwise, the distribution looks very nice, and I really liked how notifications were saved.

After installing LM14 Cinnamon I can’t change the defaultfolders for some of my main applications.
I can’t change the folder that Dropbox uses to sync my documents. Neither can I change the documents folder on LibreOffice or any folder in de paths setting of LibreOffice.
If I try I can select it, but when I click on the OK-button in the folderselector the folder is set back to /home/.

It happened on both Mate and Cinnamon and also happens with the live-CD. Now reverting back to LM13 :(((

Cinnamon 32bit
Intel 945GME x86/MMX/SSE2 driver
High CPU usage 90% to 100%, very slow, using llvmpipe.
Tried Adelante tip log out and back in and it uses the Intel driver.
CPU back to normal.
Not sure yet what a restart will do, llvmpipe or Intel driver.
Clem should we wait for a update or try to fix it ourself.

I had to go back to Mint 13 because of a weird bug that keeps me from
playing DotA2.
I use the same drivers (NVIDIA 310.14), the same .wine folder, the
same wine version and the same Steam folder.
In Mint 14 it runs fine for about 10 minutes then the performance gets
very bad for 1-2 minutes. Then it runs fine again for another 10
minutes and so on…
No problems in Mint 13.”

There is no task consuming all resources, the graphics card isn’t too hot, nothing unusual in iotops…
Happens in Cinnamon and XFCE. What could this be?

Sempron 3000, 1gb ram, Nvidia 128kb graphix, Asrock K7Upgrade-600 mb…
I’m having troubles with flash contents. I’ve read here and there hints about,aplied and… Flash is updated and installed. I have Chrome, Firefox and Opera. The only browser I can see movies is… OPERA and limited. Full screening crashes flash, no matter the chosen resolution. Hints?

I just spent 2 hours getting LM14 installed on my 2TB Linux Drive. I had to install onto a 40gb drive because ubiquity didn’t ‘see’ my drive, then dd that drive to my 2tb and then use gparted to expand the main partition so I could use my 2TB.

um … or things like that — like um um Unity
if i type in T the first thing that is shown is terminal
and it’s just great for quickly launching things

if cinnamon could use the same / or similar search techniques
like if i type cd – i get
Sound juicer cd audio extractor
Rhythm box <<<< why does this take like 20 – 30 seconds to load ?
Brasero
and two non relevant items
"Detalails"
"Start up disk creator"
but still
if i type in video
Movie Player
"Details"
VLC
Record my desktop

it's just that descriptive search that i love
and also one more thing

BIG icons
– i really tried Cinnamon with icon only – and on the top of screen
but even making the bar bigger didn't quite get it… idk what it is but it's not like unity sorry to compare so much
but if the icons could be bigger on the panel and be spaced more i think i could really get used to Cinnamon
and maybe an option to put it on the left haha

Got an error message at the end of the installation “Error removing initramfs-tools”, “subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1″. Then the booting stalled at the first splash screen.
Oh, well, I guess I’ll stick to LM13 until LM15…

226 Adelante’s fix works for me too. Intel driver problem is resolved if I log of out of Cinnamon and back in. Problem recurs after reboot. Look forward to a permanent fix, Nadia is otherwise very nice.

I’m a big fan of MATE. I didn’t like previous versions of Cinnamon, but I thought I’d give Mint 14 a try anyway. So far I like it. I like how it looks more like the MATE Mint Menu than other versions. Not sure I like the other 3 hot-corners. Is there a way to disable them? I see that Skype has problems with newer 64 bit versions of Linux. So, I setup my laptop with Mint 13 MATE 32 bit on one partition and Mint 14 Cinnamon 64 bit on another partition. Now I can try both MATE and Cinnamon side by side and still run Skype. It will be the best of both worlds.

I managed to upgrade to LM14. Love it, there isn’t a lot new stuff compared to LM13 but I did achieve the fastest boot time I ever saw on this computer. And I love the new keyboard shortcuts config window. And with the glass mint theme it’s not only the most practical but the most beautiful OS around.

Can anyone give me an explanation to my problem here? I’m trying to learn a little more about mounting partitions on startup, etc., and I have it mostly figured out. Actually the “disks” utility is quite nice and simple, I guess that’s the frontend for udisks.

Anyway, I have an ntfs partition configured to mount at start up in my home folder. I decided to put the mount point there, as I figured it would be inaccessible to other standard users, or it should be. I set it to mount at startup so I would immediately have it available when I log in. Problem is, the partition and all it’s folders are available and editable by all other users. That’s a problem. I even went into “disks” again and set it to use additional authorizations. That works partially to the extent that if I log in as any other standard user, they will have to entire root password to access the device. However, if I have already logged in, and fail to unmount the partition upon logout, the partition is shown as mounted and all information editable to other standard users.

As I mentioned, I am just now starting to dig into this, so I feel like it’s something really simple that I’m missing. This was also a problem in PYSDM which I didn’t really like to begin with. The “disks” tool seems much more streamlined which is nice. But this same behavior doesn’t seem right. Can anyone learn me a thing or two?

People who are talking about PAE being an old feature are forgetting that Intel, in their wisdom, made one of the better laptop processors WITHOUT PAE support. The Mobile Pentium M processor that appears in many laptops that are less than 8 years old, including all IBM T4X Thinkpads, and Dell D series laptops which are still coming on the market as good, cheap, ex-corporate laptops for students and other people on limited budgets.

I feel that a lot of Linux distros are abandoning one of the real benefits of Linux, that of re-using older hardware that is not suitable for patched Windows releases. When the recommended RAM is 1GB, why do you need PAE? If you need the RAM, you will buy a 64 bit machine.

Great release!
Running the Cinnamon 64-bit on my VAIO netbook.
The open source graphics drivers are a lot more stable and reliable than the proprietary ones it seems now.
Also using bluetooth to use my cellphone’s internet connection is working directly out of the box as well, very cool.

I’m having some issues with the ON/OFF switches in the wireless controls though. If I turn off the wireless, I can not turn it on anymore, unless I use the command “rfkill unblock all”. When I turn on Mobile Broadband, the connection is made, but the switch still shows as OFF, and I am unable to disable the connection unless I completely turn my bluetooth off and back on. Also, when the mobile broadband over bluetooth becomes available, it shows the message “You are now offline” instead of something like “Mobile broadband connections are available”.

I’m also unable to do any configuring of the mobile broadband connection. The “Network Settings” button from the taskbar does not show this at all, and is furthermore totally useless for configuring anything at all. The “Network Connections” window that’s opened from the menu does show a mobile broadband tab, but it does not list the connection that is available trough bluetooth.

PB
Thanks for responding. I have only the on board NIC when I had the problem. I did however end up putting another NIC (PCI) in the one of the PC’s to see if it would be any better.
What information exactly are you looking for in my network manager?
Thanks again.

I downloaded the linuxmint 14, but I was unable to boot it from my hard disk of My HP Probook laptop after having installed it with the Microsoft Windows 7 Professional; however, I am able to boot it from the dvd disk drive, but it is very slow booting it.

I’m assuming the PCI NIC didn’t work either? Did you make sure to disable the on board NIC in your BIOS settings? If you installed the PCI card with the on board one still enabled, it can often cause a conflict.

It’s not that you can’t have two NICs enabled, you just have to know what you’re doing. People will often use two NICs to set the PC up as a router.

But for your purposes, you are best served disabling your on board NIC is you have a PCI card installed.

Also, I was just interested to see if you were getting an IP address through DHCP or are you getting a static from your ISP? My guess is you are getting it through DHCP, which shouldn’t be a problem at all unless Mint doesn’t like your NIC. People don’t generally request a static from there ISP unless they are hosting a Cisco VPN, or for other more specific reasons. I guess I was just curious.

Hi, thanks for this release but somehow I am getting problems besides the UEFI booting issue at 64bit systems. my wireless card BCM4313 isn’t recognized and my ethernet card atheros AR8132 isnt working as well ethernet was working in LM13 though.. still looking for a fix.

I have installed it in a virtual machine, just to see what it is. Yes, it looks good, yes it works, but I still wonder why Mint is bringing out a new version 6 months after releasing a 5-year supported LTS version? Is it just to keep up with Ubuntu? Why not skip one or 2 versions and just focus in trying to make the LTS version even better, more stable, faster, more secure?
Why do there have to be new releases every 6 months?
When, like what is happening now, people can’t wait to install Mint14, what is the use of having an LTS version? Just for those few who don’t rush into the latest version?
I would suggest to work longer on a release, especially an LTS release to really have a great version, but I guess I am the only one. What a pitty.

I’ve recently moved over to Linux and I’m using 12 LXDE. It’s great! Stable, light and I’ve gradually worked my way arounfdwhere everything lies and how it holds together.

But what’s the point of these continual new versions that offer very little in real benefits – it’s just dragging the hardware down??? One of the reason to switch to Linux was the better and more efficient use of resources. I dislike the appearance of MATE and Cinnamon look in their present incarnations, and they are slower to use.

Has it just become an exercise to ‘Keep Up with the Joneses?’ and make everyone think it must be better as it has a larger version number (a la Firefox)?

I’m having problems with Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon. I did get my Radeon 3000 Series to work, but that’s not like in Mint 13.
– Time to time my screen flickers
– When computer locks, my screen get totally screwed until unlocked it, then i get normal picture
– HPLIP isn’t supported for Mint 14
– i’m having some strange Traces when i want restart or shutdown computer – i see that is somehow connected with fglrx driver

So i’m going back to Mint 13 Cinnamon and I’ll update Cinnamon to latest version so i can get new functionality.

I read that a lot people have problems with 12.10 version and graphic drivers… until that fixed i’m on Mint 13

For god’s sake, please change that MintX theme! When other operating systems are going great on graphics, why the hell LM is lacking there? One of my friend actually asked me if i am using a grayscale monitor looking at this theme! I have been waiting since LM10 for this theme to change. I was a happy user of LM until then! No doubt LM is a great operating system but if that doesn’t appeal to the user’s eyes, it makes no sense! The boring default desktop background, the pale and macish Nautilus screens, the extra small size icons on the tool bars etc..etc keep me 10 miles away from LM. I am fan of Clem and LM. Hope he listens and please change it atleast in the next edition!

I love Linux Mint, but enough is enough. Still no Broadcom 43xx, and now you hid the add additional hardware. My lapper worked on Mint7 without those headaches. I am not pleased. Yes 7 versions of mint with broken wireless. Now with coiled cat cable in hand there is no additional driver app. F$%%$$$$$

I have been wanting to convert from Windows to Linux for a couple years now and have tried just about every beginner distro available and although some were very good, something always seemed to be missing and force me back to Windows 7. I have been using Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon in a dual boot since its release and I have to say this is the one I have been waiting for. I have had no problems at all and have not even used Windows in over a week. Thank you Mint team!!! It’s very likely you have converted a Windows user to a very satisfied and exclusive Linux Mint user.

Wow, what a revelation, after deciding that 32bit ZorinOS6.1 is currently the best choice for my workhorse desktop rigs.
The 32bit Cinnamon version of LinuxMint-13 is proving more stable and almost as fast as 32bit ZorinOS6.1 when compared on a like with like basis installed on Lexar USBkeys, that then allows checkout on different rigs.
The 32bit MATE version is a bit of a disaster by comparison, and although quite a lot of folk are reporting satisfactory operation, most folk seem happier with the Cinnamon version.
Since the 32bit Cinnamon version doesn’t have access to CPU Speed monitoring and Control, nor to Hardware Monitoring it’s not suitable for my workhorse desktop rigs, whilst its non-LTS lack of NVIDIA-295 driver means that I can’t use it to drive my Samsung SmartTV, but it’s already serving as a very useful, transportable tool.

Thanks for this amazing release! Apart from Ubuntu, you manage it to give even another bonus from release to release.

If still possible, I would like to propose a wish for the KDE release which is to come up next:
Please polish it a bit more (plasma theme, icon set, display manager theme). A good place to start off would be the Caledonia Pack. You could use this as a base and enhance it with the typical Linux Mint colors (as seen in the Cinnamon edition).
That really would place Mint 14 KDE at the top of currently available KDE distributions.

No uefi boot again – disappointing. This means that if a novice linux user tries to install Linux Mint 14 on his brand new uefi notebook he will certainly fail. I’ve been installing linux for 14 years but I’m still a user, not a hacker, and the only way I could get Mint 13 to boot on my uefi notebook was to install Ubuntu-Secure-Remix after Mint. This Ubuntu boots uefi AND detected my Mint 13 install. I’ll be skipping Mint 14 and waiting for Mint 15 (hopefully that will have uefi support).

Something that has happened in Nadia now on my Dell laptop is that sometimes Nadia boots up into the terminal window only. I would then ‘sudo reboot’ and it would restart the laptop and it would boot up into Cinnamon just fine. Sometimes I would restart Nadia and all would be fine for a couple of boots then then ever so often it would boot to the terminal ‘prompt’ only, asking for username and password.

Any ideas, guys? If I am at this prompt, how do I ‘start’ the desktop in any case (it might be faster than constantly rebooting until the desktop decided to kick in!).

I thought it might be that Nadia doesn’t always pick up the graphics card or maybe the ‘thing’ that makes Cinnamon detect something doesn’t work and then it does the second best thing it can, to boot to the terminal?

Kudos for the great work. However I saw some problem with VLC Media Player while playing one of my 720p mp4 video. It was playing smooth in Mint 13 but with Mint 14, VLC distorting some portion of video. I thought it was my system problem (since it is bit old) but mplayer plays the same video clean. It may be VLC problem, just wanted to inform.

@Adriaan, if you get booted into a tty, you might want to try
Ctrl-Alt-F7 (or Ctrl-Alt-F8)
to get to the DM (Display Manager, the graphical login manager). I know there was another LM version which had this intermittent issue (fixed).

If the DM is not already running, the command is
startx
to start the X Window System.

I’ve been stuck with Ubuntu for a couple of editions, as I really liked Gnome Shell and all that new stuff that seemed to make me alot more productive. Yet after some updates and a crash that followed I could no longer start X and so i turned back to Mint. I’d say it’s an excellent job, Clem. Really. Cinnamon is really impressive, and I can still use my habits left from Gnome Shell (active corner for task-switching). Of course, there are some issues, but I’m confident they’ll be sorted out. It’s just that it would be great to have some more configuration options, like limiting the number of workspaces and an easy toggle between them. But that’s nothing. Keep up the good work!

Pardon me if you’ve already mentioned this, did you check to see if the Software Sources utilities suggested any additional drivers to install for your NIC? If your card has a particular Broadcom CPU, you might need a driver installed. Go to Software Sources, and selected the “Additional Drivers” tab and see if it gives you any information on network adapter drivers.

OH! This 14 is BEAUTIFUL!!!! I can’t believe the speed I’m getting out of this thing. Whatever you all are doing keep it up. … 14 is FANTASTIC!!!! … oh yeah, everything works on my Lenovo, don’t know what’s inside because it’s a work computer.

64 bit both version doa here on multiple systems. floppy does not mount. network connects but does not pass data. video at low resolution with overscan with crt and hdtv. sound winks in and out in tray. cinnemon freezes with empty windows. can not update to fix due to networking. going to pepermint mate 64.

I could install UEFI without any issues, only when I wrote the ISO image to USB via. ubuntu’s “usb-creator-gtk”, but bad part is the Metacity is broken and the borders are vanished, when I log into Cinnamon.

Looks like I have run into stability issues with Nemo and Cinnamon 1.6. Nemo does not like having 2 windows open at the same time when copying and pasting from one folder into another in a different window. When I start doing this Nemo crashes and the desktop icons disappear. I have to either restart Nemo or restart X by going control/alt/backspace and log back in. I also run wallch on the desktop and don’t know if this is contributing to the issue. Wallch works smoothly on Mint 13 cinnamon but on 14 the wallpaper changes rather abruptly, no smooth transition from one image to the other. And I get no error messages or logs to look up, so I’m not sure where the issue is coming from. I have a Nvidia 9500GT video card with the current Nvidia drivers, so I know that is not an issue. May want to check into this. I have been using Mint since 9, but I will stick to Mint 13 cinnamon for now.
Thanks in advance,
Ken

many thanks for your work. I was extremely happy that mint 14 mate worked on eeepc 1025 flare series until this morning. even hdmi.
However after this last update the system does not start anymore because of x-server not properly starting. also new 14.1 cannot be started. rgds ernst

well maya was a complete fail for me. buggy and slow with lots of manual installs which were extremely complicated.
went back to sweet lisa she so fine she sweet wine.
perhaps we could keep lisa and re releeaase maya and nadia versions that actually work out of box. …the hurrier we go the behinder we get.

after updating from 13 to 14 i cant download pics via usb from my nikon p7000 . that bug wasnt existing before the update.
after connecting the camera i can see all the pics as thumbs in caja. but transfering them to the pc fails!!!!
what can i do to fix it????

Running a Compaq CQ5110F with a 2x AMD Athlon 7550 Dual-Core Processor and 2972660 kB total memory, I installed Linux Mint 14 Nadia this afternoon without a glitch from start to finish. I didn’t time the install, but it seemed to go faster than previous Mints or any other Linux distribution on this machine.

I do note that Mint cannot recognize an external hard drive formatted with exfat. That’s no problem.

I first want to congratulate the Mint Team !!! great releases but now I have some problems with a newly installed mint14 in combination with LibreOffice. I am a sysadmin at several SMEs and I moved them all from MS to linux (first ubuntu and now moint). Currently the mint13 is a painless environment and I have hardly any user with problems (great) but after I rolled out mint14 for a new user I got the following problem :

When saving a doc file (MS office 2003) as a doc file, libreoffice crashes and the file without any updates goes into recovery mode … I installed mint14 from scratch and did not modify anything

the odd thing with mint13 and libreoffice, there is no problem (save as works fine) with an upgraded mint14, there is no problem (save as works fine)

this happed on acer one d522 machine and a no-name PC (amd based) both are running a 64 bit version of mint (virgin install)

the other machines : – acer X1370 upgraded mint14 and – a dell 1520 (mint13 out of the box) do not show this proble

Does it mean I have to hold off to install mint14 and go on with 13 ? Mint14 is snappier than 13 and it is supposed to be more stable ….

if it is a bug I am happy to file it but the Ubuntu moderator deleted the entry while saying it is not Ubuntu but Mint therefore no support and Libreoffice says it is related to the OS and not of their concerns ….

can anybody tell me what´s about Linux Mint 14 with KDE?
I found nothing official on the Mint webite, just a hint in the web for a KDE release somewhere in December?
Can anyone confirm this?
Many thanks in advance.

Is it really safe to install Mint (or any other Linux distro) onto the same hard drive as an MS Windoze 7 installation? I used to have another computer onto which I could load a *NIX OS, but now I am down to a single system. So I wouldn’t want to hose what I’ve got.

I’ve been experimenting enthsiastically with various distros, Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse Puppy . .
Mint 13 x64 cinnamon is working well, thanks and on another machine, the upgrade to Mint 14 x 64 mate was eventually achieved, but MY configuration was lost. With upgrades in future I’d like to be able to confidently preserve my desktop, Opera setup, my selection of software and their settings but I can’t successfully use the Backup and Restore program. Though going through the motions, the destination files are always empty, though the apps list does open. I suspect there is still some development going on and it would be useful to know if BU&R is functional. Can I backup to a partition on the same HDD and how (if relevant) must it be formatted, to a partition on a shared HDD or do I have to use an entirely separate media? RickinMaidenheadUK

I downloaded the linuxment 14 and installed it on the hard drive of my laptop computer; however, I have not been able to boot because there was a statement that the boot procedure or iso crashed. What can I do to rectify this situation.

After installing mint14/mate, the system hangs for a few minutes with a message about waiting for the network manager to start (before getting to the log-in screen), and once logged in, in the panel, I can see a broken network connection even though I am connected and online, and the tooltip reports that the network manager is not running…

No problem under mint13/xfce. I will admit not being a fan of Mate as I always used xfce, but I am curious about this oddity. Anyone else? I don’t plan on using this for too long, but I am quite puzzled.

I’ve been using cinnamon for a while, but just because bluetooth wasn’t operational yet in mate… So with this release I switched right back to mate It’s just more stable when using beamers, network printers, etc… And I love the Gnome 2 style

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